we heard it first in denver at his morning rally and, again, this afternoon in a second rally here in madison, wisconsin, with the message, i bet the president wishes he had delivered last night. let's listen to some of it. >> when i got on the stage, i met this very spirited fellow who claimed to be mitt romney. but i know it couldn't have been mitt romney. because the real mitt romney has been running around the country for the last year promising $5 trillion in tax cuts that favor the wealthy and, yet, the fellow on the stage last night who looked like mitt romney said he didn't know anything about that. >> i'm told, first of all, the theme by both the president and his aides that mitt romney is full of dishonesty and distortion and you heard all the spin, but i'm told by multiple people that the president, his team did not expect the governor to come out as forcefully, as aggressively, sort of dialing back on some of the themes of his campaign to date on both tax as and on medicare, wolf. >> are they saying that he's going to be doing something dramatically differently going forwa